Re: [MiNT] vcons

[Maurits van de Kamp <maurits@bassment.demon.nl>]

On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, Martin-Eric Racine wrote:

> Can anybody who is familiar with the sources tell me, where is the
> "MiNT 1.12 hostname (ttyv?)"
> message we get on the virtual consoles generated from?
> 
> Does it come from vcons or login or getty?  It would be nice to upgrade
> whatever is doing this to instead fetch the MiNT version and report it;
> that hard-coded 1.12 looks a bit dumb... *grin*

It's in /etc/gettytab . I just change the version number in that file
myself, but I guess it's no problem to replace the version number with
`uname -r` (mind the reversed quotes). Then it would be automatically
correct.

Maurits.

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